A faint white light shines on the black earthworm bracelet. When the soil encounters this layer of light, it will become soft and automatically disperse.
When a person walks through the soil, it is like flowing in a gelled liquid.
Shen Yi finally understood why the ground movement speed was reduced by half when activated. The feeling of running in glue was really terrible.
All the equipment was in a sealed state and could not be used at this moment. The calls of the engineers could not be heard in the ears, but the rumbling trampling sounds above the heads could still be heard from time to time.
Shen Yi could clearly feel the violent emotions coming from the large group of soldier ants.
Not just emotions.
A long leg suddenly pierced the ground, like a javelin shot from the roof, stabbing Shen Yi hard.
Shen Yi turned his body to one side to avoid the stabbing, followed by countless long legs and tail thorns swishing through the ground, grazing Shen Yi's body and stabbing down one after another, stabbing out a line along the ground where Shen Yi ran. A straight forest of guns.
"Damn it!" Shen Yi quickly changed direction and ran towards the other side. Although traveling underground, the speed is slow, but one advantage is that it is not affected by the terrain of the passage. But the consequence is that he may deviate from the route at any time. , in the end he didn’t even know where he ran, and he also lost his forward vision.
However, the soldier ants on the surface seemed to be able to sense the movement underground. No matter how he changed his position, the rifles kept coming towards him one after another.
At the same time, more than forty soldier ants also sneaked into the ground, and the giant jaw teeth dug up the soil underneath like a road opener and moved forward quickly.
The walking speed of these soldier ants was actually not much slower than Shen Yi's, especially since there were so many of them, they once again formed a swarm underground.
Just when Shen Yi was rushing forward, a soldier ant suddenly appeared in front of Shen Yi. Its jaw teeth broke through the soil and cut directly into Shen Yi's throat. Shen Yi quickly turned his head to dodge, and the jaw teeth flew past his face. At the same time, two more soldier ants rushed towards him on his left and right sides. Shen Yi couldn't avoid them any longer. He activated the black earthworm bracelet and he jumped upwards.
As soon as I rushed out of the underground and returned to the passage, I heard the hysterical shouts of the engineers: "Brother Shen Yi, be careful!"
Six soldier ants attacked him simultaneously from six directions: front, back, top, bottom, left, and right, and their spears formed a dense forest of spears in front of Shen Yi.
Just when the eighteen foot guns were about to penetrate Shen Yi's chest, Shen Yi's figure suddenly flashed and he disappeared without a trace.
When he reappeared, he was already standing beside Frost.
The battle on the lord's side has ended. Ninety-nine soldier ants lay dead in the wilderness. The soldiers were cleaning the battlefield. When they saw Shen Yi's return, all the soldiers cheered excitedly at the same time.
Frost saluted Shen Yi: "Welcome back, sir!"
"This is not worth welcoming, Frost. You must know that my original intention is not to come back...I am not saying that I will never come back." Shen Yi patted Frost on the shoulder and looked around.
He is currently located on a cliff. There are many rocks, vegetation and trees in this area. Adventurers can make full use of the terrain to counter the flying advantage of soldier ants.
The ground was littered with body parts of soldier ants, and the battlefield covered most of the cliff. Everyone was more or less injured, and it was obvious that it took a lot of effort to eliminate this army of soldier ants.
Lan Meier's face showed a look of sleepiness and exhaustion, and at the same time she was filled with endless annoyance - after a great battle, nothing was gained, but Shen Yi gained something by killing the ant.
Seeing Shen Yi's return, the lord and the gardener ran over excitedly. First, they gave Shen Yi a slap in the air to celebrate, and then the lord smiled and said, "Well done, brother Shen Yi."
"It's not pretty at all. In fact, I'm the kind of person who would run away in panic after being beaten." Shen Yi shrugged: "Those guys are really not friendly to guests at all."
"It's good that they didn't chase us!" The engineer from a distance shouted: "Brother Shen Yi, come here and take a look at this."
Shen Yi quickly jumped onto the black lightning. On the on-board computer, a large number of soldier ants in the ant nest were still angrily looking for traces of the intruder. Their tentacles were waving everywhere, and the passages were so crowded that it was difficult to insert a pin. Soldier ants, you step on me and I step on you, crawling wantonly in the passage.
The general ant whose wings had been chopped off by Shen Yi even brutally turned over a soldier ant in front of him, then tore it into pieces and opened and closed its mouth to devour it.
What was shocking was that as it devoured it, the wing that had been cut off in half slowly grew back.
Swallow, one of the basic skills of General Ant.
In addition to this skill, General Ant also has two skills: 1. Transformation: can transform any worker ant into a soldier ant. 2. Ant aura: exerts an influence on all soldier ants around it, improving its offensive and defensive strength.
All the skills of the general ants are group skills. The general ant that was killed by Shen Yi was killed without any room for use.
"It looks like they are really angry." Looking at the brutal and bloody scene, Shen Yi said with a smile.
He lit a cigarette for himself and handed one to the lord. The lord shook his head and said he didn't want to smoke, but the little nurse snatched it away and lit it for himself, which surprised Shen Yi.
As if she knew what Shen Yi was thinking, the little nurse said: "Do you know what is the biggest benefit of entering the bloody city?"
"What?"
"There are no exams, no teachers, and there is no such thing as not being allowed to do this or that not being allowed."
"Then……"
"Then you can do whatever you want. It's not illegal to kill people here. There's no homework. You don't have to worry about failing, and you don't have to face those people you hate..." The little nurse flicked the cigarette ashes skillfully, and then opened her mouth and pointed at her teeth. : "Don't even worry about it turning yellow."
Shen Yi smiled: "But you can't see your parents anymore. Although they may make you upset sometimes, when you really leave them, you will find that you have lost your most precious thing."
The little nurse's eyes dimmed for a moment: "You're really annoying. You'd better think of as many good things as possible when living here."
Patting her little face for comfort, Shen Yi turned back and continued to observe the movements of the soldier ants on the screen, and casually asked the engineer: "Why haven't the electronic bees gone deeper yet?"
"We can't go." The engineer shook his head: "The remote control range can't reach that far. In fact, they are out of control now. Only when you pass by can they input relay commands through you. You should get something more advanced next time. Electronic bees. By the way, two electronic bees were destroyed by soldier ants during your advance."
"Don't worry about losses. As long as the plan goes well, all losses will be worth it." Shen Yi said while continuing to observe the movements of the soldier ants.
As time passed and after searching to no avail, the soldier ants finally dispersed.
They returned to their positions, burrowed into the soil, and became silent as if hibernating. The huge nest returned to calm again.
Shen Yi looked at the bloody crest on his wrist and whispered: "Three minutes."
Then he asked the sapper: "Where did I return?"
"Here." The engineer pointed at the screen: "You deviated from the designated route while traveling underground, and now you are on another passage. If you want to return to the designated route, you must..."
The engineer's finger swiped across the screen: "You must go through this passage and turn at the next fork. The good news is that you have broken through one hundred and twenty meters more than planned, and are now seven hundred and twenty meters in the ant nest." It can be said that you have penetrated deep into the heart of the enemy's territory. If you can maintain this speed, you only need to come back once more to see the queen ant."
"I know, let's play back the video. This time it starts from the time I use the Earth Bending Technique and ends with me leaving the underground."
As the video was played back, Shen Yi carefully observed the behavior of the soldier ants on the ground while he was walking.
He watched very carefully, not missing every scene, and would replay it from time to time. For some scenes, he played them continuously and watched them again and again.
However, no matter how the members of m7 observed, they still could not see anything worthy of studying the performance of these soldier ants in the video... "Did you see anything? Brother Shen Yi." The gardener asked cautiously.
"Well, you see, my current breakthrough position is at a depth of 720 meters. From the screen, there are a total of fifty passages here. I counted about three hundred soldier ants appearing here. Adding the previous one hundred, that is to say, there are only four hundred soldier ants responsible for guarding the entire 720-meter circle."
"So few?" both the lord and the gardener exclaimed.
The engineer also felt incomprehensible: "It looks like they are all on the screen. I believe that there are a thousand soldier ants here."
Shen Yi smiled: "This is the most interesting part. You see..." Shen Yi framed the picture, then pointed to the swarm of soldier ants moving on the screen and said: "Look, from the outside, we can't see the soldiers at all. The difference between the ants. They look exactly the same and cannot be distinguished. In addition, the field of view that the electronic bees can harvest is always limited, and they are mainly locked here. The passage space itself is small, so it gives people the impression that they are everywhere. The illusion of black ants. But if we abandon our narrow perspective and look at the overall situation... we will find that this is not the case."
"The black ant nest is a nest that pays great attention to symmetrical architecture. Assuming that the queen ant is located in the deepest layer of the nest, the depth of the entire nest is about 1,800 meters. From the current point of view, the ant nest is divided into one layer every sixty meters. , there are about four passages on each floor, for a total of thirty floors, the number of passages should be about 120, and on average there are about eight soldier ants in each passage."
"At first glance, when I entered the attack circle, all the soldier ants were attacking me, but that was not the case. You see, these soldier ants did not attack randomly. They knew how to cooperate. In the end, Importantly, they even know how to guard important roads."
Shen Yi pointed to various passages on the screen: "Here, here, and here, there are some soldier ants in each place for coordinated defense. Only a small part of them are actually responsible for the attack. Most of the soldier ants are actually still It has its own defensive territory, but the previous static defense has been transformed into a dynamic defense. Some of the soldier ants are responsible for guarding in place, and some are responsible for attacking. The number is about half and half.
Because there are so many of them, they all look exactly the same and cannot be distinguished. No matter which direction we turn the camera, we see a large number of soldier ants, but we don’t know that a considerable part of them overlap. In addition, the soldier ants themselves
In terms of size, one passage can accommodate more than ten soldier ants, and it looks even more black. If it can accommodate twenty, it is like a packed sardine in a can. It is difficult to even turn over, which is why I am in a dilemma.
, but if you really want to calculate the actual number, it’s actually not much.”
"So that's it." The lord understood: "So, the so-called black ant attack circle is actually a regional defense strategy, but it is just a more dynamic manifestation?"
"Yes, the so-called attack circles are what adventurers call them. You must know that not all adventurers' opinions are correct, and some of them are even guesses. They are simply based on the evaluations of other adventurers.
When analyzing your opponents, mistakes will inevitably occur, so in the end you have to rely on your own observations to get accurate answers.
The black ants actually use a dragnet-type defense system. The biggest advantage of this defense system is that its defense range is large and sparse, making full use of the terrain and the limited number of soldier ants.
.On the one hand, we use garrisoned soldier ants to guard the main roads, and on the other hand, we use the active soldier ants to flexibly supplement the protective power of each channel, so it is very difficult to break through."
"Are you kidding? Black ants can also form formations?" the little nurse screamed strangely.
The staff officer coughed lightly: "The spider's web is structurally called the most perfect anti-collision system. There are many strange inventions in the animal kingdom that are simply beyond the imagination of humans. They may not know why they are
They do this, but they know what to do to make themselves safer. Thousands of years of evolution have made their survival instincts far stronger than humans."
"So what about these guys? How many years of evolution have they gone through to become like this?" Zhang Jianjun shouted, pointing at the corpses of soldier ants on the ground and roaring: "Look at them, do they look like ants? They say they are called
Ants, but every one of them is ten times more vicious than a lion or a tiger. They stab each other..."
Zhang Jianjun patted the black lightning and pointed to a large dent on it: "It can poke a big hole in the steel plate. Their attacks are more ferocious than bullets! What kind of evolution is required to create such a group of beasts?"
Shen Yi leisurely replied: "Maybe it's not evolution, maybe it's strengthening..."